[Info-vax] And another one bites the dust....

[Simon Clubley]

On 2022-02-15, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
> On 2/15/2022 8:04 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> National Computing Group
>> West Mifflin, PA
>> 
>> Document, plan and execute the modernization of Fortran applications 
>> running on OpenVMS systems to a virtualized Windows Server environment.
>> --------
>> 
>> Does anyone watch for these postings and then try to convince them to
>> not move away from VMS?   Or at least find out why they are moving.
>
> It is VSI's job to monitor migrations and argue for keeping VMS.
>

I really hope they are doing this.

> Why people are moving off VMS are pretty well known. Generally being
> on a niche platform is considered a risk. The wording above hint
> that not being able to run on VMWare servers is a significant
> problem for that company as well.
>
> So if VMS 9.2 has been released 2-3 years ago then maybe (just maybe)
> this company would have kept VMS. But it was not.
>

I agree with this reasoning.

> It would be good for VSI to push info about VMS x86-64. If I were
> responsible for marketing at VSI then I would send out an offer
> to join the VMS x86-86 field test program to every company that is
> using VMS. Not because there necessarily will be any benefits for
> them or VSI of them joining, but because it send a strong
> signal that VMS x86-64 is just around the corner.
>

This is the kind of thing I was thinking of in my previous posting
when I wondered if there was anything that could be done and I agree
with your reasoning here as well.

This is exactly the kind of thing VSI should be doing, and if they are
not, then it's the kind of thing they should start doing immediately.

Simon.

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